When it comes to digital rights we have slowly been heading towards fascist dystopia.

I first stated paying attention when Rudd / Conroy tried to filter the internet. Although IIRC mobile phone Know Your Customer came in post sept 2001.

Since then it’s just been a frog in a pot. Meta data retention, assistance and access, identify and disrupt now the hand your ID to every fucking site/app bullshit posing as a kids social media ban.

It’s always been about the ability to silence dissent.

Fuck our politicians. Enjoying saying that while I can. Probably won’t be long before saying that will get your internet cut off.

Yes have noticed more rage bait. Also more and more culture wars in comments. Still not anywhere near as bad as reddit.

Headline question, answer no…

But seriously look at the election results. Fair to say the vast majority are either in favour of mass immigration, or their views on it are not strong enough to make them vote against it.

Mass immigration has had bipartisan support since Howard used it to ass fuck the unions and housing for anyone under 40.

I think a lot of it comes down to housing. 2/3 own real estate and know that the flood of people equals demand equals increasing prices.

They should be completely banned nationwide unless you live on at least a 4 hectare property.

What if they fucked right off and left parenting what kids do on their devices to their parents?

Maybe I’m just getting old, but the idea of “verifying” my real identity to a faceless website or mobile app is abhorrent.

I guess it doesn’t help that governments in some countries (UK, Australia that I know of) are encouraging this bullshit with Trojan horse laws claiming to protect children from adult websites / social media.

Can’t help but think there is also an element of pot meet kettle here, when users of an app designed to dox and slander people without their knowledge are now the ones getting doxxed themselves.

Why the fuck is the media still calling this a kids social media ban instead of what it really is? A fucking Trojan horse for govt and big tech to further erode digital rights and harvest more personal data.

This is why I don’t think AEB should result in giant fucking 4WDs being able to get 5 stars for vulnerable road user protection. If the bonnet is above waist height, max 2 stars if it has all the driver aids.

By all means mandate AEB still. But the reality is some manufacturers have shitty implementations of AEB and other aids like lane keep assist which encourages people turning them off.

It can’t be fully relied upon to counter the physics of taller vehicles running in to pedestrians.

Same. Our economy relies heavily on China buying our stuff.

Remember when our former prime minister Scott Morrison ran his mouth about China and corona? China retaliated by finding excuses to not import a lot of different products from us. A lot of our industries here suffered.

My current car has ventilated seats. Use them every time I drive in summer.

Finding another car is now more difficult because I can never go back to not having them. Never I tell you!

I read a lot of fiction books in my own time when I was in primary school for the enjoyment of it.

When I got to highschool I hated English so much. Analyse what the author’s theme was in this bla bla fuck off! Sucked the joy out of reading. Didn’t give me any useful skills for the career path I was heading in to either.

There needs to be an academic English subject for people who just need it to get in to STEM courses.

Took some years after high school to get back in to it, but I do occasionally read fiction when I have time these days.

I’ve read they are drinking less and taking less recreational drugs and having less sex than previous generations.

I’m so glad that capturing everything with photos / videos and uploading to socials wasn’t a thing in the early 2000s when I was going to clubs and electronic music festivals. Reach for the lasers safe as fuck.

Must be soon. Crocs have been in fashion for a while.

They really came out of the wood work when the covid vaccines were released. Friends and acquaintances who were there munching down e’s of unknown origin back in early 2000s suddenly had a different stance about putting something “unknown” in them.

Is grape the default anywhere other than the USA? I don’t think I’ve ever seen grape jam (jelly) for sale in Australia.

Growing up the default was always strawberry.

I only eat bread rarely now. But if I was doing this it would be sour dough, Pics peanut butter and Schwartau Extra sour cherry jam.

In addition to what slazer said, in Australia once you earn over a certain amount you get hit with an extra tax if you don’t take out private health. The conservative coalition brought that in a long time ago because their donor mates in private health asked them to ruin our public health care and this was their first step towards that.

I still have private cover as it seems like the least bad option even though it pisses me off. I guess that’s the point.

Since my work “upgraded” to windows 11 the task bar is the bane of my existence.

We all run a laptop docked with two monitors. In windows 10 I would set a monitor as primary, drag the task bar to the laptop screen. That would result in the most real estate for the software I use with out clutter.

Can’t fucking do this is 11. It’s either primary or all monitors for task bar. Someone suggested auto hide the task bar. Holy shit even that has been fucking ruined in 11. It turns off randomly and frequently. Plus notifications seem to over ride the hiding.

Surprised that the religious right haven’t put them in their sites.

The word yacht or the way it is pronounced.